Pure popcorn pleasure for older teens and up.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 29, 2010

Jason Statham uses his smoldering charisma to great effect.

| Apr 16, 2008

The acting might be shoddy, the plot nonsense and the dialogue clunky, but the fighting is exquisitely done. Inventive, athletic, fun, stylish and tight, it's everything the rest of the film isn't.

| Feb 9, 2006

Statham impresses in a movie that is simultaneously the best (the fight scenes) and worst (everything else) action movie of the year. Destined for drunken Friday night rental heaven.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 1, 2003

Like the longest BMW featurette Guy Ritchie never made, this action yarn is a slick, sexy little package with fast cars, big explosions, dazzling locations in the south of France, a trip-hop score, and about as much plot to fill a thimble.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 10, 2003

What a yawn this truly abysmal film is.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 20, 2003

This is junk food cinema at its greasiest.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 24, 2002

Kills time between car chases and martial-arts bouts with random scuba-diving footage apparently culled from producer-co-writer Luc Besson's The Big Blue.

| Oct 22, 2002

The chases and explosions get a little (well, more than a little) ludicrous, but the cool premise is still very cool.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Oct 19, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 19, 2002

The story is virtually impossible to follow here, but there's a certain style and wit to the dialogue.

Full Review | Oct 14, 2002

Quite the ride, if you can stand the sight of valuable cars at risk.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 12, 2002

A poke in the adrenal gland.

Full Review | Oct 11, 2002

The last 40-odd minutes are essentially one fight, pushed to the point of absurdity.

Full Review | Oct 11, 2002

There's some outrageously creative action in The Transporter ... [b]ut by the time Frank parachutes down onto a moving truck, it's just another cartoon with an unstoppable superman.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 11, 2002

Routine and rather silly.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Oct 11, 2002

If you overlook the rock-stupid story line and one-dimensional characters, The Transporter will take you on the white-knuckle ride it promises.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2002

The movie is effectively one long, well-choreographed action chase sequence. It isn't very interesting, or for that matter, particularly coherent.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 11, 2002

The best movie Steven Seagal never made.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 11, 2002

It's also clear from the start that The Transporter is running purely on adrenaline, and once the initial high wears off, the film's shortcomings start to shine through.

Full Review | Oct 11, 2002